213. Leprechaun
So for the past 6-7 years, roughly every Saturday night, my friend Jason and I get together for “Drawing Night”. It’s pretty much in the top 5 things I look forward to every week. The tradition started over at the house he used to live at where all sorts of visitors would drop by and be annoying.
Sidebar: The very first drawing night ever, one of Jason’s friends was being released from jail and Jason was supposed to go pick him up. The guy found another ride and came to Jason’s house where he went on a massive rant about wanting to kill his family, who had pressed the charges to send him to jail, and subsequently paid his bail. I had never met this dude before. So, y’know, good times.
Eventually I got tired of going to these places that Jason lived without air conditioning in the summer and we moved drawing night over to my house. Occassionally, like last night, I went to Jason’s place along with our friend Joe. A time was had by many. While we worked, we also watched Leprechaun and Leprechaun 2. Cuz why not? So, I decided to sketch the li’l guy.
Earlier in the day, I watched the 1981 Legend of the Lone Ranger film. It’s not a great movie, but I liked it a ton better than the recent Johnny Depp abomination. To be fair, I loved this movie as a kid and watched it all the time. But usually, nostalgia is an ugly bitch, and that this kind of held up says something, I think. It definitely is unfairly maligned and a lot better than it’s reputation presents.
212. Frankenstein
I watched The Omen – the original version. It was meh. Just too slow and not enough interesting anything to keep me engrossed.
So this doodle. When I was a kid – long before I was into comic books, I was into Cracked Magazine. I used to have quite a collection. Wish I still did. Lots of great art was in that book, like John Severin, Dan Clowes and Dick Briefer. Briefer’s humorous Frankenstein comics were featured in various issues and I remember them fondly. Decades later, I still remember them fondly. I know there are a couple of collections of his Frankenstein comics available, but I would love a complete book.
Oh well.
211. JJJ
I drew this on metallic paper.
209
Last night I watched Not Fade Away, the debut film by David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos – a television show I’ve never watched and therefore I have no nostalgia for it. The movie didn’t make me want to correct that at all. It was fine, though. A quiet, character drama that I suspect might be autobiographical in nature. It’s a coming of age story in which a group of suburban teens in the 60s form a band in the wake of The British Invasion. It’s good, solid, a little heavyhanded at times and doesn’t really connect the viewer to the characters the way I think it’s really trying to. Almost everyone in it winds up fairly unlikeable. Our “familiar” is the little sister/narrator who could be removed from the movie without changing a single thing. But, othewise, it’s a fine movie.
Tonight, I watched Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown, a documentary about sewage treatment.
Ok, actually, it was about H.P. Lovecraft. It also is fine. I don’t feel I really learned anything new or gained any new insight into Lovecraft. I’m not sure if an audience unfamiliar with his work would even be interested in watching a documentary about him. But hey, Neil Gaiman’s in it and that’s all you need anymore, right?
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New Robin.
